Piper Corp, Ph.D.

Dr. Corp studies the processes by which communities create and contest shared objects of perception (e.g., diseases, species) with the aim of expanding public participation therein. Her book project makes a historical and theoretical case for understanding these object-making processes as specifically rhetorical—a perspective that her current work, published most recently in Philosophy & Rhetoric, extends to epistemic conflicts in contemporary politics, science, and medicine. Dr. Corp teaches courses concerned with rhetoric, power, speech, and scientific inquiry. She received a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in English from George Mason University, and a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University.